How much news coverage is Peacekeeping receiving right now?

As of August 20, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.006% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 2 articles per day.

Is media coverage of Peacekeeping increasing or decreasing?

Coverage is up 16.7% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before).

What is the tone of news coverage about Peacekeeping?

The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is +0.62, which reads as neutral-to-positive. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).

How are these numbers measured?

Geotone processes the GDELT Project's 15-minute data files every two hours, matching this topic's fixed query against article titles across 65+ languages and aggregating counts and tone by UTC day. Coverage volume is the share of all GDELT-monitored articles matching the topic query; tone is the mean document tone. Full details are on the methodology page.

Peacekeeping

Peacekeeping accounts for 0.006% of all global news coverage monitored by GDELT as of August 20, 2026 (2 matched articles/day). Coverage is up 16.7% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.62 — neutral-to-positive.

Coverage of UN and regional peacekeeping missions and their mandates.

Data updated: August 20, 2026 · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share

0.006%

of monitored articles

Articles / day

matched by GDELT

Week over week

+16.7%

7-day mean vs prior

Average tone

+0.62

neutral-to-positive

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Emotional signature

Anxiety-related words per 1,000 words of matching English-language coverage (LIWC dictionaries via GDELT's GCAM). Latest day: 0 anxiety · 6.3 anger · 52.8 positive emotion. Tone says whether coverage reads negative; these say what kind of negative.

Where this coverage comes from

By language

English100.0%

Share of matching coverage, from GDELT breakdowns (as of 2026-08-20). Tone split: 50% of articles read distinctly negative, 50% distinctly positive.

In focus by country

Countries where Peacekeeping coverage concentrates — each links to the stories and headlines for that intersection.

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily human pageviews of the topic's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage measures what the press supplies; this measures what readers seek out. Week-over-week: coverage +16.7%, reader interest -5.7% — supply and demand are diverging.

Related fact-checks

Several social media users have claimed in posts which have been liked thousands of times that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have fired on Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon.
United Nations peacekeepers have come under fire, however, the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Defence Minister have confirmed that no Irish positions were involved.PA Media · 2024-10-11
“Kenya has been participating in peacekeeping over the last 40 years in 47 countries including in very difficult neighbourhoods.”
IncorrectAfrica Check · 2024-06-27
UN peacekeepers were present for fires in Scotch Creek, British Columbia
FalseAFP Fact Check · 2023-09-01
Liberia peacekeeping ‘largest operation in Africa in the history of the UN’? Fact-checking prominent economist’s claims
IncorrectAfrica Check · 2022-10-11
"The positive role of the peacekeeping operation on the Dniester was emphasized … until the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic and the Republic of Moldova finally settle their relations."
MisleadingVOA · 2021-09-24

Via the Google Fact Check Tools API; ratings are the fact-checkers' own.

Frequently asked questions

How much news coverage is Peacekeeping receiving right now?: As of August 20, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.006% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 2 articles per day.
Is media coverage of Peacekeeping increasing or decreasing?: Coverage is up 16.7% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before).
What is the tone of news coverage about Peacekeeping?: The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is +0.62, which reads as neutral-to-positive. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).
How are these numbers measured?: Geotone processes the GDELT Project's 15-minute data files every two hours, matching this topic's fixed query against article titles across 65+ languages and aggregating counts and tone by UTC day. Coverage volume is the share of all GDELT-monitored articles matching the topic query; tone is the mean document tone. Full details are on the methodology page.

Methodology: coverage share and tone are computed from GDELT's 15-minute data files and aggregated to UTC days — see how every number is computed. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).